Creating a Hive of Activity: Why we need to adopt APIs for Digitised Content

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Creating a Hive of Activity: Why we need to adopt APIs for Digitised Content<br />

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Creating a Hive of Activity<br />Creating a Hive of Activity: Why we need to adopt APIs for Digitised Content<br />@alastairdunning<br />a.dunning AT jisc.ac.uk<br />http://www.slideshare.net/xcia0069<br /><ul><li> Creating a Hive of Activity: Why we need to adopt APIs for Digitised Content

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http://www.slideshare.net/xcia0069</li></li></ul><li>commercial content services such as Flickr, Google Books or Twitter use APIs to allow multiple services to access, manipulate and display their content<br />

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(briefly!) using the API researchers could<br />test and revise the historical narrative of the evolution of court room practise at the Old Bailey, from an early modern form of trial in which juries and negotiation dominated, to a more familiar modern system characterised by professional control by lawyers and the police; the declining role of juries, the rise of plea bargaining, and growing rates of conviction.<br />

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to conclude – some short-term wins of adopting APIs<br /> content and enthusiasm is out there, although disparate – see The New History Lab article<br /> visualisation can produce eye-catching success<br /> short bursts of funding can make things happen<br /> scholarly labs around Europe<br /> enthusiasm of cultural heritage sector <br />opportunities for enriching metadata via crowdsourcing<br />exploiting and mashing up digital content for a variety expands the use cases<br />can create a hive of activity<br />